Tuesday, August 13, 2013

8-13-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos:







Eugene Robinson asks "What NSA reforms?"
In this Washington Post op ed Robinson notes The modest reforms Obama proposed do not begin to address the fundamental question of whether we want the National Security Agency to log all of our phone calls and read at least some of our e-mails, relying on secret judicial orders from a secret court for permission. The president indicated he is willing to discuss how all this is done — but not wheth


8-11-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: A follow-up to Something weird has happenedIn this piece i remarked on the strange phenomenon of a piece originally posted in February again going viral on the Washington Post website.  Because in that original piece, I noted that what I was observing was a part of the reason I had retired from the classroom, and as regular readers here know I have decided to "un-retire" I